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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Warehouse Process
by W2HX 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Let me also suggest that for big items (or even huge ones) to go out and buy a crap-load of large, dirt cheap bedsheets (not fitted). Throw them over the equipment. Much of the dirt/grime/dust that gathers on this stuff settles from out of the air onto the top of the equipment. A simple gesture of covering with a bedsheet will keep them much cleaner. And you can always run a wash at the local laundromat when the sheets get too filthy. But I suggest this gets done otherwise the big stuff will need to be cleaned more frequently (and the cleaning has some risk too). Just a suggestion 73 Eugene W2HX From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces(a)lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2019 7:12 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Adam Michlin <amichlin(a)swerlin.com>; gsteemso <48bitsorbust(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Warehouse Process

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Museum Report 2019-12-22 December 22, 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

A steady stream of visitors due to the last day of the Holiday Model Train show. Some high interested visitors mixed in with the many casual visitors. A good day overall. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Regarding Evan Koblentz and VCFed
by John Heritage 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

I would donate for an in-museum plaque or something acknowledging the founder of VCF.. I also like the idea Ben has below. On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 7:12 AM Ben Greenfield via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > I would like to see the Board acknowledge Evans foundational work by some > sort of substantial naming, such as naming the archive to this date after > him. > > > Ben > >

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Hanukkah Sameach!
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

To all my vintage computer friends who are Jewish: Happy Hanukkah! *Chag Urim Sameach!* I wish you all a happy time with family and friends. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Museum Report 2019-12-21 December 21, 2019
by Jeffrey Brace 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Got to the museum at 12:30pm. I was a little late because I had to teach Taekwondo today and there were no other docents available. A visitor came about a minute later with high interest, so I gave him an extended tour. The day was filled with a steady stream of visitors due to the Model Train Holiday show at InfoAge. Most were casual visitors with children who were mostly interested in games, etc. Mouse came to help Martin to string network wire in the 9010-A section (where the museum is). They worked for about 5 hours to wire the 9010-B and 9010-A sections. Thanks Mouse and Martin! The physical wiring is done with some networking hardware and software configuration needing to be done next. VCF will soon have hard wire access to the internet and not have to rely on Mobile Citizen for internet access. I also tried out new bottoms for the stools in the museum. We have caster wheels which we felt were dangerous to child visitors because they could easily fall when the stools moved suddenly. The new casters are flat instead of wheels. We are trying it with one stool to see how it goes. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Dialup, was Museum Report
by David Gesswein 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 08:08:23AM -0500, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > As to other work, Evan and others have been planning a dialup bbs setup in the museum with multiple machines able to ???dial in??? to it, but it never seemed to get beyond the planning stages for a variety of reasons. We plan to build from that foundation and get those system up in the near future as well. > As to networking other machines, as Martin pointed out there is some capability already in place with one of the routers but Andy and others have already talked about other networking possibilities. > I was going to ask about what the plans for dialup were. For the museum 3b1 I was going to bring the "final" disk image to the next workshop. One of its somewhat unusual features was a built in modem. May have had something do do with AT&T selling it. Dialup was common for early unix networking. The 3b1 could demonstrate some of that. Could show uucp file transfer, its The Store! where you could download and install software, email, Usenet etc. It can also call into BBS or into other computers. I assumed dialup won't be done in a short time frame so wasn't planning to configure this now. I can update the image when dialup is supported and its capabilites are known or if planning gets far enough add support to the image I'm setting up.

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Regarding Evan Koblentz and VCFed
by corey cohen 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

In my earlier email I mentioned the creation of a new VCFed steering committee managing the museum and the collection at InfoAge. Some of you have asked about Evan’s role in this transition. Evan has chosen to leave his official role at the Vintage Computer Federation. As a founder of our group we had hoped that Evan would continue in his role as Executive Director of the VCFed organization and as a member of the steering committee. Evan has chosen to not be a part of this new organization. We all recognize that, without Evan, there would likely not have been a VCF East. He was also responsible for so many of the artifacts in our collection that might have gone to the scrapper instead of being saved for future generations to appreciate and understand. Evan has been critical in getting out the word on our community and has been the “social media” face of VCFed. Evan has contributed so much more to our group and our hobby that it would be impossible to list it all. It is my hope that Evan will finally be able to enjoy attending VCF East instead of running it and that he will be able to exhibit his Lego robots there for us all to enjoy. We will miss Evan as we move VCFed to this new management structure and thank him for his years of service. We also would like to thank you, the members, as well for your understanding as we move forward with our commitment to being the world’s best grass roots forum for computer collectors and enthusiasts from around the world. Thank you, Cheers, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Vintage Computer Federation, a federal 501c3 designated charity 917-747-1408 mobile corey(a)vcfed.org www.vcfed.org

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Regarding Evan Koblentz and VCFed
by Michael Brutman 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

In the interest of keeping things from escalating further please refrain from further replies to this thread. People have a right to speak and a right to defend themselves. But I think everybody will agree that doing it by email while emotions are still raw is not a good way to do it. Let's at least have a cooling off period ... it's just too easy to yell past each other and do further damage. Mike

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Dirty Laundry
by David Riley 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Could we not? I'm all for transparency, but batting recriminations back and forth doesn't move anything forward or fix anything that might be broken. Just my $0.02. - Dave

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Regarding Evan Koblentz and VCFed
by laurakid 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Evan, I understand why you are angry and don’t disagree. I know you created this. But I also know (and so do you) that you are not one who is flexible to accepting others’ opinions. Now that VCF is what it is, and is bigger than you, that flexibility is required. I agree with those who ask that you try to roll with it and not take it as a coup. People want to work WITH you. It’s not just yours anymore and can’t grow if it is. You can’t manage it by yourself. And if you want the help of others you have to be willing to accept their input and be flexible to new ideas. In short, you have to be a team player. Respecfully and hopefully correctly understood, Laura Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, December 21, 2019, 7:19 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: There was no hack.

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